1. Siemens TIA Portal Openness Feature Functionality and Possible Use European Spallation Source – Integrated Control System Division
Nick Levchenko
CERN
Date:

2. Scope Functionality & Features Availability & Compatibility
Installation & Use

3. Functionality & Features
Automation of engineering by controlling the TIA Portal externally from within a custom made program you have created
The following functions are available:
create/delete project data, PLC and HMI data
modify projects and project data (import/export/etc.)
download/upload/compare project data to/from PLC/HMI

4. Use @ ESS CCDB TIA Portal Custom Application
Database that holds information on all devices, their locations, controlling them PLC’s, etc.
Custom Application
Openness
TIA
Portal
Generates PLC code (in the form of import files)
Extracts data
from CCDB
Uses Openness to import files to PLC project

5. System Architecture TIA Portal Openness provides a public API (DLL)
Users can create their own application (MS Visual Studio: C#, VB.Net, etc.) to use any functions provided by the API

6. Object Model

7. Availability & Compatibility
Available from TIA Portal V12 SP1
More feature added with every version
Currently available via Siemens only (some files required)
Will be publicly available from TIA Portal V14

8. Configurations have to be adapted
Siemens Roadmap
XML-Export of SCL blocks
XML-Import of SCL/GRAPH/LAD/FBD blocks
Export/Import of HWCN data
Generation/Modification APIs for TIA Portal Project data
Up/download
Compare
Im/Export of HMI project data for HMI RT Prof
Predecessors functional replacement
Open and close TIA Portal
Open, save, close project
Import/export of HMI configuration data for HMI RT Advanced
XML-Export PLC blocks of S7-300/400
Read tag tables
Read selected hardware configuration data
XML-Export PLC blocks of S7-1200/1500 (except SCL)
Export/import tag tables via XML
Modify a TIA project via UI and API
Import ASCII sources (STL/SCL/DB/UDT)
XML-Import of LAD/FBD/GRAPH blocks
Generate ASCII Source from Block (STL/SCL/DB/UDT)
Extended possibilities for reading data from the project (Blocks and library data)
Support of the UserXperienceSet
Import/export of extended HMI configuration data for HMI RT Advanced
XML-Import of PLC blocks in S (only STL)
Copy from Library to Device
Start Block Editor / Tag Editor
Start Compile PLC / HMI
Silent Update Check for type objects
TIAP > V14 Openness
TIAP V13 SP1 Openness
TIAP V13 Openness
TIAP V12 SP1 Openness
Configurations have to be adapted

9. Installation & Use Contact your local Siemens
They will provide you with some installation and configuration files and user manuals
They will also provide some demo applications (as Visual Studio projects)

10. Example

11. Traditional Import/Export
Generate text files (*.scl, *.db, etc.)
Attach them as external sources
Manually generate block from external sources using TIA Portal
Any changes? Repeat steps 1 and 3

12. Openness Import/Export
Generate XML files
Automatically import them into TIA Portal
Any changes? Repeat steps 1 and 2, which can be fully automated in your custom made software tool
Traditional import/export using connected external sources still available and usable via Openness as well

13. XML File Additional Features
Better, industry-standard format
XML import lets one create instance DB with user-defined name AND number:

14. Demo